Bad bird: Woman stalked by wild turkey she's nicknamed 'Godzilla'

COMMERCE TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Edna Geisler is a prisoner in her own home, constantly fearing the stalker who lies in wait for her on her front lawn. Her tormentor? A 30-pound wild turkey who she refers to as "Godzilla," reports The Detroit Free Press.

Geisler, 69, told The Free Press the bird has stalked her for two months.

The turkey lurks in her yard, screeching constantly, she told the paper. Even worse, when she's alone, the large tom turkey attacks her, she said, pecking and clawing at her hands.

"I'm afraid to go out of my house," she said. "I have to go to the post office at 6 o'clock in the morning to avoid him."

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Godzilla the wild turkey walks around the front yard of the home belonging to Edna Geisler, 69 of Commerce Township. Geisler has been terrorized for a month by a wild turkey she named Godzilla.

Godzilla runs at her and bumps into her, clawing to the point of drawing blood.

"I got a terrible stinging right here," she told the Free Press, pointing to the back of her left hand.

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Edna Geisler, 69 of Commerce Township stands on her front porch with the broom ready to shoo away the wild turkey she's named Godzilla.

"Godzilla" has developed a routine: Each morning he wanders in from the woods on state land over to Geisler's yard, which he apparently has come to see as his own. Geisler's busy street doesn't bother Godzilla, and doesn't stop him from fanning his feathers - usually a method of flirting with hens - but in this case, just another tactic for scaring Geisler: When he preens, he's as big around as a car tire, reported The Free Press.